Definitions for Mother

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Mother moth·er

Spelling: [muhth -er]

IPA: /ˈmʌð ər/

Mother is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in Mother (ehmort).

Definitions for Mother

noun

1. a female parent.
2. (often initial capital letter) one's female parent.
3. a mother-in-law, stepmother, or adoptive mother.
4. a term of address for a female parent or a woman having or regarded as having the status, function, or authority of a female parent.
5. a term of familiar address for an old or elderly woman.
6. mother superior.
7. a woman exercising control, influence, or authority like that of a mother:
8. the qualities characteristic of a mother, as maternal affection:
9. something or someone that gives rise to or exercises protecting care over something else; origin or source.
10. (in disc recording) a mold from which stampers are made.
11. a stringy, mucilaginous substance consisting of various bacteria, especially Mycoderma aceti, that forms on the surface of a fermenting liquid and causes fermentation when added to other liquids, as in changing wine or cider to vinegar.
12. motherfucker.
13. a person or thing that is very large, powerful, or impressive.

Idioms

1. mother of all, the greatest or most notable example of:

adjective

1. being a mother:
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of a mother:
3. derived from or as if from one's mother; native:
4. bearing a relation like that of a mother, as in being the origin, source, or protector:

verb (used with object)

1. to be the mother of; give origin or rise to.
2. to acknowledge oneself the author of; assume as one's own.
3. to care for or protect like a mother; act maternally toward.

verb (used without object)

1. to perform the tasks or duties of a female parent; act maternally:

Origin of Mother

before 900; Middle English mother, moder, Old English mōdor; cognate with Dutch moeder, German Mutter, Old Norse mōthir, Latin māter, Greek mḗtēr, Sanskrit mātar-. As in father, th was substi

Examples for Mother

"You're carryin' on the same way yourself," ventured his mother.

The young man stared at his mother until he had mastered her meaning.

Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.

You were our only child; named Artaminta, in remembrance of my mother.

Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.

But Avice is—er—my dear, she is like her mother in more ways than one.

Give your heart up to it, as a little child led by its mother's hand!

I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.

Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.